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Greetz from academe: Santa's got a gun

In the latest of his ‘Greetz from Academe’ series, highlighting some of the work going on in academic circles, John Aycock looks at a tool designed to detect JavaScript containing malicious evasions.

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The past and future of international cooperation

Wout de Natris urges parliamentarians to facilitate cooperation across borders and asks: why is it necessary, in 2013, to give up a little bit of sovereignty and territoriality?

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Crystal ball gazing

Round-up of some of the security industry's predictions for the year ahead.

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In memoriam: Péter Ször 1970-2013

The untimely death of security researcher Péter Ször sent shockwaves across anti-malware community last month. Some of those who knew him best pay tribute to a brilliant mind and a true gentleman.

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Governments seek to boost cyber defences & skills

UK starts recruitment for Cyber Reserve Unit; India plans to increase number of reverse engineering professionals.

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Finnish government breach

Finnish Ministry of Foreign affairs breached over four-year period.

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Employee awareness and security budgets still found lacking

Only 17% of respondents in Ernst & Young survey say their company’s information security function fully meets the needs of their organization.

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Berlin time

The first week of October saw the 23rd anniversary of German reunification and the 23rd Virus Bulletin International Conference – in Berlin. Helen Martin reports on the latter.

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When ZAccess becomes a debugger

ZAccess (a.k.a. ZeroAccess) is a complex botnet with many different variants and updates to the malware having been observed over several years. In June He Xu and colleagues found and analysed some variants which integrated a debugger engine. He…

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Perhaps email is broken after all

Martijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)

‘If anyone were to invent SMTP today and decide it was a good idea for messages to be sent in plain text, they would receive short shrift.’ Martijn Grooten considers the current state of email in light of recent security-related incidents.

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